Posted on 10/02/2015 3:30:59 AM PDT by nuconvert
Chris Harper Mercer, the man identified as the gunman in the deadly rampage at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., on Thursday, was a withdrawn young man who neighbors said wore the same outfit every day combat boots, green Army pants and a white T-shirt and was close to his mother, who fiercely protected him.
Neighbors in Winchester, Ore., and Torrance, Calif., where Mr. Mercer, 26, lived with his mother, Laurel Harper, remember a reclusive and seemingly fragile young man with a shaved head and dark glasses who seemed to recoil from social interaction.
He always seemed anxious, said Rosario Lucumi, 51, who rode the same bus in Torrance as Mr. Mercer when she went to work.
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Is this true ???
another Newton.. mom shelters ‘sensitive’ boy.
“We have a problem of excusing a lack of character as emotional problems that need to be treated by therapists.”
Over the years I have known more than a few people with a “lack of character” as I define it (dishonesty, disloyalty, lack of integrity, no ambition, etc.). However, none of them would have even thought to grab a gun and some ammo and murder a bunch of strangers.
yes, that is true
"Time to run a DNA test to see if they are related!"
So, you’re saying this guy was mentally ill, thus not responsible for his actions?
Or maybe the powers that be scrubbed the contemporary social sites, Instagram, facebook, etc., but forgot to take out myspace, never thinking he would have an account there from the olden days.
“So, youre saying this guy was mentally ill, thus not responsible for his actions?”
I’m saying that there are many people who, in decades past, would have been housed in a secure facility. But a false sense of “compassion” has dictated that we allow them to live freely among us, to our and their detriment. And, no, I don’t believe in the insanity defense.
You spelled out my quandary about this mess.
You think that's enough to lock someone up?
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